What do you think heaven will be like? What about the sounds we might hear there?

Will there be sounds there we cannot hear here on earth? Will it be like Isaiah 55:12 says, “The mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands”?

Elisabeth Elliot, missionary and author said this about hymns: “One of the things that I think is so important and often neglected nowadays is the learning of hymns, because it’s an easy way to learn theology. My father was not a theologian, but he was a very, very devout Christian and a writer and an editor of a Christian magazine. But we sang a hymn every single morning after breakfast. Because of that, we children learned hymns by heart without any effort whatsoever.”

(First, we do appreciate contemporary Christian music and often sing it in church. We personally enjoy music from Third Day, Matt Maher, Casting Crowns, Michael W. Smith, Sovereign Grace, Keith and Kristen Getty, Steven Curtis Chapman, Kari Jobe and Michael Card and on and on. And I realize that heaven won’t all be hymns as we know them because there will be people from every nation and God Himself will transcend it all. No church is perfect, and so we brought hymns into our home as a way to teach theology and the history of the saints to our children.)

The proclamation written by George Washington, the first President of the United States, was displayed at Christie’s Galleries prior to being auctioned, on October 3, 2013 in New York City. According to Christie’s, this was the first proclamation made by a United States President, declaring the first Thanksgiving holiday. Signed by George Washington on November 3rd, 1789, the paper was expected to fetch between $8 million to $12 million. It was being sold by a private American collector.

For the believer in Jesus Christ, today is GOOD Friday. Good, not in the sense many of us use the word ‘good,’ but ‘good,’ in terms of what this day is all about; ‘good,’ in terms of what this day secured for us; ‘good,’ because of what it ultimately accomplished for us!

It’s a bit odd, perhaps, that Christians have attached such an adjective to this Friday.

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